Technical Program Manager II [Remote-US]

We’re looking for an accomplished and well-rounded Technical Program Manager II (TPM) to join our Quanata Program Management Office (PMO) Team. The PMO Team drives Quanata’s Rhythm of Business and focuses on delivery optimization across the company and driving company level goal achievement. TPM IIs manage initiatives that drive direct and material impact against the highest business priorities with complex execution. They lead through delivery optimization challenges and drive continuous improvement to promote efficient and effective processes.

• Bring order to chaos by building, implementing, and sustaining right-sized processes that empower the organization through clear workflows, communications, and reporting. Marshal delivery of the highest priority goals in the organization.
• Support organizational leaders in building effective goals (OKRs) and partner with cross-functional leads to break work into portfolios, programs, and workstreams (projects, kanban, etc.) to deliver goals.
• Ensure vertical and horizontal alignment and transparency at the appropriate level at the right time across all programs, projects, and services, including with senior leaders.
• Guarantee execution against the highest level goals by driving program and project teams to hit expected delivery goals (OKRs), and ensuring teams have effective and efficient ways of independent working.
• Facilitate governance across their teams, with minimal guidance implement known governance processes and patterns, and manage escalations end-to-end, exhibiting best practice issue management with minimal supervision.
• Drive organizational change across large teams through independent identification and execution of process improvements via a rigorous and thoughtful continuous improvement framework and organizational change management.
• Tackle volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous challenges by driving planning cycles and ensure clarity of goals (OKRs), schedules, milestones, and risks across your assigned areas of responsibility, which will include complex technical programs and projects.
• Provide program management direction within assigned programs, projects, and services, influencing organizational policies, best practices, and standards, ensuring alignment with Quanata OKRs and senior leadership.
• Collaborate effectively with all cross-functional colleagues and stakeholders and demonstrate workplace resilience against change, feedback, and challenges. 
• Demonstrate technical understanding by planning and executing against technical engineering goals and product designs.Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
• 6 - 8 years project/program management or relevant experience
• Five or more years of experience in software engineering product development
• Program Management core skills and knowledge:
  • Communications & Stakeholder Management - Proficient level
  • Continuous Improvement - Development / nascent level
  • Execution & Governance - Advanced level
  • Managing Organizational Change - Development / nascent level
  • Planning - Advanced level
• Expert in developing and maintaining team harmony in a diverse environment and showing workplace resilience in the face of change and feedback.
• Recruiting: Assist with recruiting and interviewing various roles, as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in software development adjacent field (eg: computer science, data science, project management)
• PMP certification
• Six Sigma Green Belt